In the four consecutive days of rain, the Central Red Army arrived in the territory of Gulin County, on the Sichuan-Guizhou border.
Nearly 30,000 officers and soldiers of the Central Red Army finally passed through a gap surrounded by the Kuomintang army and moved to the edge of the encirclement.
At this time, the Guizhou army still thought that Red Army was far away in Northeast Yunnan and was unsuspecting. Their commander-in-chief Wang Jialie was busy holding a birthday party for his mother in Tongzi.
The Red Army prepared to cross the Chishui River twice, and ordered the Red First Army to be the left-handed army, occupy the ferry near Taipingdu , and the Red Third Army is the right-handed army, occupy the ferry near Erlangtan , and the ferry near Erlangtan , and the Central Column passed through the middle under the cover of the defender Red Fifth Army .
htmlOn the evening of February 18, the floating bridge at Erlangtan Ferry was built, and the follow-up troops of the Red Third Army crossed the river one after another.In the early morning of February 19, the main force of the Red Third Army that crossed the river launched an attack on the Guizhou Army positions in front of him, and the Guizhou Army fled wildly.
htmlOn February 23, the Red First Army arrived at Xinluoba, Xishui County, the Red Third Army arrived at Huaqiuba west of Tongzi, the Red Fifth Army arrived at Liangcun southeast of Xishui , the Red Ninth Army arrived at the warm water near Xishui, and the Central Column arrived at Hutan.That night, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission ordered the Red 1 and Red 3rd Army to launch an attack on Tongzi County, and Tongzi, an important town in northern Guizhou, was occupied by the Red Army again. After
occupied Tongzi, the Red Third Army began to move rapidly towards Zunyi south of Tongzi, rushed through Loushan Pass , and occupied Zunyi again.
24, the 13th Regiment and 12th Regiment of the assault troops attacking Loushan Pass set off from Tongzi in the rain.
The commander of the army Peng Dehuai issued a combat order to capture Loushan Pass. At 4:00 pm, Peng Dehuai personally visited the position of the 13th Regiment and ordered the officers and soldiers to seize the Loushan Pass before dark.
Loushanguan is 1440 meters above sea level, 15 kilometers north from Tongzi County and Zunyi County to the south, which is extremely steep.
The Red Army fought a desperate battle with the Guizhou Army. The Red Third Army made great sacrifices and finally occupied Loushan Pass.
28 On the evening of the evening of 28, Mao Zedong passed through Loushan Pass with the Central Column.
Immediately afterwards, the Red Army attacked Zunyi, and Zunyi City was again occupied by the Red Army.
In the battle of Zunyi, the Guizhou Army and Kuomintang Central Army were defeated. The large-scale mobile operations of the Central Red Army made it difficult for Chiang Kai-shek to clarify the clues in the southeast, west and north. Within three days, a series of orders were issued to regain Zunyi by military deployment.
Seeing the enemy surrounded by all sides, the Central Red Army took the initiative to withdraw from Zunyi County and attacked on a small market town in Renhuai County, Guizhou.
The Kuomintang Central Army built solid fortifications in Luban Field, with more than 1,500 officers and soldiers in the Red Army casualties, and the situation could not be broken through.
So, the Central Red Army abandoned Luban Field at dusk on March 16, turned around and advanced rapidly towards the northwest, occupied Maotai Town , and crossed the river from the Maotai Town Ferry.
The Red Army officers and soldiers who had just crossed the Chishui River to the west have now turned around and crossed the Chishui River to the east, and have turned back from the original path they walked three days ago, which the Kuomintang army would never have imagined.
From the morning of March 22, the main forces of the Central Red Army, together with the Central Column, secretly and quickly crossed the Chishui River and entered Guizhou again.
This is the fourth time since the Red Army crossed the Chishui River westward for the first time due to the failure of the Tucheng battle on January 29, the Red Army's officers and soldiers crossed this river that runs across northern Guizhou.
At this time, the Central Red Army was heading south and had arrived at the shore of Wujiang .
On August 31, Chiang Kai-shek received a report that the Central Red Army had crossed the Wujiang River to the south, and the Central Red Army continued to advance westward at a speed of 60 kilometers per day.
The First Corps of the Red Army crossed Beipanjiang in northwest Guizhou and entered Yunnan from Guizhou .
On the night of April 26, the Red Army raided and occupied the county town of Xuanwei. Since the Central Red Army broke through Wujiang for the first time, the Red Army has been wandering in Guizhou for two months and has gone through thousands of difficulties and dangers, and now it has finally come out.
Red Stars Shining [Issue 24]
Red Army Crossing the Chishui River Four times
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